General Gardening Discussion

My pravissima is in full bud already as well strongy, it always is at this time of the year. Dont think I'd get away with baileyana though.

Yup just Paladins ones, got those OK thanks,Oh and the ones before have arrived...I did nothing honest... very frustrating no pics :( when I like to know whats going on...and after ages watering tonight still no rain not a drop for weeks very difficult to start a new garden in dust.... ...

No watch the red dotted line, the one they call thickness. The blue line is the cold front, the red dotted is the air temps.

didnt know all that! thanks

LOL Hornbeam, sweet smelling slugs, nice..

We have portable units, found them easier than trying to knock through metre and half stone walls....less mess for one thing !!I'm off to check the oven, I've a giant sticky toffee pudding in there at the moment, and a tuna and salmon terrine waiting to go in the bain marie ...it's all...

I have a very small garden Fancy - so every square foot has to work hard. The Lupins thing was sparked off by Christopher Lloyd, who gardened pretty intensively. He said that he replanted some areas up to three or even four times a year. His argument was that people visited his garden over a...

I am going to plant them this weekend, the first living thing I've put in so far! thanks for the advice, have a good weekend.

Liz. I can do it so it can't be hard.Just cut out the spine of the leaf and plant the two halves in the well drained compost with most of the leaf sticking out. The babies form in a short while.

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In the UK a couple of my cronies in the production trade reckon that you grow lavenders from cuttings late in year one, then cut them hard in year two maybe three or four times and sell them in year three as solid globes of grey-green with flower spikes coming up..I think if you follow this...

PIECE OF CAKE ROYSTER ha,dont like laburnum full stop :D :D

Dave.. Re Smothies I asked you as I was told to add Yogurt after whizzing the fruit and that is really nice...Fat free if your slimming Greek if your not...

I LOVE MY BAMBOOS BM i just go bamboozel ha. good man.

Oh Thank You Liz, I'm glad you liked it. I found it heartening that so many people are giving it a lot of thought. But what a wonderful involvement of the teenagers - how nice that a tree gets their imaginations going. Well done tree - an inspiration to us all. Trees really do touch lives.

Thank you, I shall look forward to the hazelnuts, if the squirrels don't get there first!

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Hi, does anyone do anything special with their decking over winter? A man who gave me lots of advice with the building of it said to keep it looking good it was best to cover it with a tarpaulin over the winter. Does anyone do this? and would that blue plastic tarpaulin do or would it have to be...

I've been using chippings in a wood land garden area - 2-3 inches thick - and it really works as weed suppressant! Just forked in last years, we are on heavy clay, and the chippings help loosen it up. I get trailer loads for free from the guys who do our hedges. They are always keen to...

Not being critical DaveP, Pete and Waco ... shouldn't you be speaking in "what's looking good in September"?Time is advancing ....